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SILENT ERA FILMS ON HOME VIDEO
Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
Copyright © 1999-2009 by Carl Bennett.
All Rights Reserved.
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His Luckless Love
(1915) |
This rare Tom Kennedy (who?) comedy from the Keystone studio features Tom as a husband with a roving eye for the maid who can’t stay out of trouble with his wife or the maid’s boyfriend.
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 2002 Grapevine Video edition
His Luckless Love (1915), sepia-toned black & white, 12 minutes, not rated,
with Eyes of the Mummy (1918), color-toned black & white, 58 minutes, not rated.
Grapevine Video, no catalog number, no UPC number.
Full-frame 4:3 NTSC, one single-sided, single-layered DVD-R disc, Region 0, ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 2.0 mono sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, 1 chapter stop, keep case, $19.95.
DVD release date: 2002.
Country of origin: USA
Ratings (1-10): video: 4 / audio: 3 / additional content: 6 / overall: 4.
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This edition from Grapevine Video has been transferred from a good 16mm reduction print, which is soft of image detail, with contrasty graytones, blasted-out highlights, some speckling and dust, and exposure fluctuations. The video transfer is adequate on standard equipment, and rougher going on high-definition systems, but it remains watchable when the print deficiencies are excused.
